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Fringey Mini: Slave Labour at Sea: The Gerald Affair · Journey to the Fringe

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  About a month ago or so, I gave you the choice
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  of brains or dolphins. Yes. We're going back
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  to that choice, except it's just dolphins. So
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  I'm going to assume that you choose dolphins.
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  That is very presumptuous of you. This one it's
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  kind of in the news but it's kind of a little
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  bit ago so it caught my eye at the time it was
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  going around. So let's just start with the title.
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  Police respond to wild viral story about Florida
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  man kidnapped by Gerald the dolphin. This is
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  from the tab .com and this is by Alisa Bain.
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  Everyone is obsessed with the viral story about
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  a man who was kidnapped by a dolphin named Gerald
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  and now the local police have even responded.
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  missed this entire saga which I'm hoping everybody
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  who's listening has or is bad for a journey to
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  the French take on it a post went viral claiming
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  that a 33 year old man called Ricky James Hollowell
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  was found on a beach in Lee County Florida after
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  being kidnapped by dolphins for three days according
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  to the crazy story a dolphin named Gerald took
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  him 40 feet underwater and forced him to help
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  them build an underwater city quote Florida man
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  found sunburned and disoriented on Sanibel Causeway
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  claiming he was kidnapped by dolphins and forced
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  to build an underwater city end quote the post
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  said. Lee County Sheriff's deputies responded
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  to the Sanibel Causeway early Monday after motorists
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  reported a man standing on the shoulder soaking
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  wet and drawing blueprints in the sand. I really
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  hope it's with ocean water. According to the
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  police report, Ricky James Hollowell, 33, was
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  found barefoot, severely sunburned, and wearing
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  only swim trunks. He told deputies he had been
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  taken against his will by a pod of dolphins three
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  days ago. Oh, it was a pod, not just one. Yep.
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  Gerald must have been the leader. And forced
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  to work on what he called an underwater construction
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  project. The whole thing is obviously fake. I
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  don't know - I know the tab. He sounds pretty
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  credible so far. Where does this go on to? Did
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  they interview any dolphins before this? I know!
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  Like what presumptuous journalism. And it actually
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  came from a satirical Facebook page called the
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  Dude Humor Report. Oh. Okay. which posted the
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  fictional story on the 4th of March. However,
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  the story went so crazily viral that even the
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  Lee County Sheriff's Office has now responded
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  and confirmed that a man wasn't actually kidnapped
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  by Dolphin. And they did so with a bit of humor
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  of their own. In a Facebook post, the Florida
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  Sheriff's Office wrote, construction investigation
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  team and learn the dolphins of our oceans deny
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  any involvement they hilariously ended the post
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  quote disclaimer no dolphins were harmed in the
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  making of this rumor end quote well I'm glad
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  they cleared that one up I actually didn't know
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  that it was made up in all the talk about what
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  I don't know about this to be fair it leaks a
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  lot more sense I thought he was either gonna
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  be really high or it was made up I thought it
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  was gonna be the director of FEMA yeah got transported
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  to another place it turns out was a dolphin the
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  whole time it was an underwater city they needed
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  him to build yeah so that's mine i thought There
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  was a possibility it would be true. So that took
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  a turn for me Can we just say that it is kind
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  of nice for like an article to actually say this
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  is clearly false and more Articles about like
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  current affairs should be able to just say that
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  as opposed to getting both sides of things Obviously,
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  I wasn't expecting it. I'm a little bit disappointed
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  So that's where this Wednesday's leaving me.
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  But hey, you guys got 48 hours. Maybe you can
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  find Gerald and his pod of dolphin friends. Yeah.
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  I don't even know, like, he didn't even say what
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  he was trying to construct, so I don't know.
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  Whatever he makes you do. We would need the blueprints.
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  We'd need those. Well, you need to find this
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  guy then, who doesn't exist apparently. It's
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  unfortunate. Anyhow, bye. Bye.